Introduction to assessment for healthcare professions education
October 1 @ 08:00 - October 5 @ 17:00
1200€Date: October 1 – 5 (5 days), 2018
Location: Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Course leaders: Prof. dr. Cees van der Vleuten, Dr. Carlos F. Collares & Suzanne Schut
Target group: Beginners and intermediate level
Objectives:
The objective of this training is to provide a comprehensive panorama of theoretical and practical aspects of assessment in healthcare professions education for teachers who have a beginner or intermediate level of knowledge and experience in the field.
The course focuses on both quantitative and qualitative approaches to assessment as it was designed to cover the entire Miller’s pyramid model of competence, from cognitive assessment (e.g. progress testing), passing through the assessment of skills (e.g. OSCEs), up to the behavioral and attitudinal aspects targeted in workplace-based assessment. To wrap up, the course also explains how programmatic assessment can be used as a strategy to maximize the impact of assessment on learning.
Topics that will be covered during this training:
| Validity | Reliability | |
| Programmatic assessment | Blueprinting | |
| Item writing | Standard setting | |
| Angoff | Progress Testing | |
| OSCEs | Rating scales | |
| Generalizability | Item response theory | |
| Rasch model | Workplace-based assessment | |
| Mini-Cex | Portfolio assessment | |
Price: € 1200,-, including five days training by experts, coffee/tea/drinks during the day, lunch, and a dinner during one of the evenings.
Summary of the course programme:
Day 1 – Evidence-based principles of assessment & blueprinting
Day 2 – Item writing/reviewing & standard setting
Day 3 – Progress Testing & OSCEs
Day 4 – Classical test theory and generalizability theory, item response theory
Day 5 – Work-based assessment & programmatic assessment